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Film Review Writing Guide

The document provides guidance on writing a film review, outlining that a review should inform readers about the film's details, describe the plot and characters, analyze whether the film is good and why, and advise readers whether to see it. It recommends that a review have an introduction summarizing the conclusion, then paragraphs describing the plot and actors, analyzing the director and performance quality, and concluding with release details.

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Film Review Writing Guide

The document provides guidance on writing a film review, outlining that a review should inform readers about the film's details, describe the plot and characters, analyze whether the film is good and why, and advise readers whether to see it. It recommends that a review have an introduction summarizing the conclusion, then paragraphs describing the plot and actors, analyzing the director and performance quality, and concluding with release details.

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Planning to write a film review

As with any kind of writing, you need to start by identifying your genre, purpose,
audience and style.

A film review should have a number of purposes:

 To inform. The review needs to tell people who is in the film, who it is by and where
or when readers can see it.
 To describe. The review should describe the story, characters and some of the action
- without spoiling the plot or giving too much away!
 To analyse. A good review gives an opinion on whether the film is good or not and
why.
 To advise. Finally, the review should tell the reader whether or not to go and see the
film.
These different purposes will give you a basic structure for your writing.

Possible structure of your review :

1. Introduction: this gives an overview of who is in the film and what it's about. It
also sums up the reviewer's conclusion about the film (so readers can form an
opinion without reading the whole of the review)
2. Paragraph 2: the reviewer then describes the plot and the action,
while informing the reader which actor plays which role.
3. Paragraph 3: the reviewer then analyses the film, talking about the director and
then the actors, looking at good things as well as bad things.
4. Finally: the review informs the reader when the film is out (and sometimes, in a
local review, where it can be seen).

SOURCE: BBC

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